Remolino Grande, The Secoya Community on the River Aguarico 2nd November -16th November 2006. Day 1 My canoe journey from Puerto Gregorio to Remolino Grande (Seguaira) the Secoya Community where Gustavo was actually waiting for me was absolutely amazing if a little scary. The river is brown and doesn't seem that clean but the surroundings are really beautiful: Rainforest punctuated by the occasional wooden shacks and semi-naked brown little kids playing in ...

Hola everyone! Well everything didn't quite work out like it was supposed to! I was meant to meet the director of the company I am volunteering with to travel to Puyo and from there get a plane to the jungle in the south to live with a Shuah community. However, the plane apparently had no gasoline and Max (the director) didn't know when they would be able to get any?! He had arranged for me to go and work with a Secoya sommunity in the north where there ...

Hola everyone! I'm still in Quito but I'm off to the jungle tomorrow to start my volunteer work. I'll be spending two weeks with a community deep in the jungle near the border with Peru, where they have never had any tourists before. I have to get the bus to Puyo and then get a little plane deep in the jungle should be fun! After that I'll be in the Cloud Forest for 12 days with another community that are nearly ready to receive tourists and ha...

Hola! I got up early today because I wanted to catch the Animal Market, which starts at 5am. Over breakfast I met a bloke from Switzerland called Castan? I think. I'd actually seen in Quito a few days ago in one of the museums but didn't talk to him. He seemed to know exactly what was going on so we arranged to spend the day together visiting the markets. The Animal Market had pretty much finished by the time we got there but there were still some cows ...

Hola! I went back to the Old Town today to visit some of the many churches and museums fun fun! First stop from the Trole bus was the Plaza Santo Domingo where I started at the Iglesia Santo Domingo. Not sure if I was meant to take photo's so I left pretty quickly when the security guard started following me around and giving me evils. I was just standing in the Square taking pictures when I saw a massive Mary looking down from a little hill so I jumpe...